Divers searching for discarded fishing nets in the Baltic Sea have discovered a rare Enigma encryption machine used by the Nazis in World War II.
As AFP reports, a team found the Enigma machine last month in Germany’s Gelting Bay, which is about 90 miles (150 km) north of Hamburg. The device, famously used by Nazis to encrypt messages during the Second World War, was uncovered by a group not normally associated with marine archaeology: the World Wildlife Federation (WWF). German divers working on behalf of the group were searching for abandoned fishing nets, also known as “ghost nets,” when they accidentally stumbled upon the historic relic.
“What a find,” said Florian Huber, an archaeologist and research diver, at his Facebook page. “I will not forget this day. Once in a lifetime.”
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